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We are continually treated . to new hypothetical tickets, with Mr. Cannon at the head and first one man end then another in the second place. The latest gossip assigns to Mr. Hughes, of New York, the distin guished honor of running for Vice President .with Mr. Cannon as his chief. The anxiety of the politicians to be stow the Vice-Presidency upon Mr. Hughes is not to be taken as a sign of their deep affection for the Gov ernor who has caused them so muc'i tribulation. It is rather a sort of hon orable exile which they are planning for him as they did for Mr. Roose velt. Piatt and the other New York political kinglets shoved Mr. Roose velt Into the Vice-Presidency to make a cipher of him. Providence used their scheme to make him the most significant figure of the last forty years. One would suppose that the outcome of the former game of elim ination would cause some hesitation to the bosses before they tried it oi again with Mr. Hughes; but they probably trust to their luck. If they could get Hughes safely immured in the Vice-Presidency with some man like Cannon in the White House, con ditions would revert to an ideal state for the grafters both in New York and in Washington. The end is some thing to dream over and work for, even though the work looks rather hopeless. The wretched phantasms of politics like Piatt and Odell would never desire for an Instant to see Mr. Hughes at the head of the Nation. What they want is to promote him Into a political grave. Hence they talk eagerly of making him Vice-President, but not President. But there is a class of very powerful men who take Mr. Hughes seriously as a candidate for the Presidency. In this class two elements are included. There are in the first place a great many thoughtful and disinterested men of wide influence who believe that Mr. Hughes is better qualified for the chief magistral-,- than any man of the pronounced Roosevelt type, because he is more cautious and re strained , while? he is equally determ ined that justice shall be done and the laws obeyed. They believe that it has been Mr. Roosevelt's mission to exhort the Nation, rouse it to a sense of its shortcomings and waken to longing for reform. That great work, they say, has now been done. The period when exhortation was the one thing needed has passed away and we have reached a time when calm and constructive thought is required. Calmness and the thought that builds endurlngly are the leading charac teristics of Mr. Hughes. He is re markably free from anything like im pulsive action. In the second place, the men with corporation affiliations whom Mr. Roosevelt has offended by denouncing their practices and enforcing the laws, are deeply embittered. If they can have their way no man of the Roose velt type, and certainly not Mr. Roose velt himself, will be nominated for President by the Republicans next year. They have little, perhaps noth ing, to hope from Mr. Hughes. He is no friend to unrighteous privilege nor will he connive at lawbreaklng. But it would be a satisfaction to the smarting magnates to use him to de stroy the Roosevelt group c, public men. That they would destroy them selves at the same time cuts no figure with them. Perhaps they are blind to the inevitable. Perhaps they realize that their reign is over in any case and that revenge is the only comfort they are likely to get out of -politics from this time forward. But it is also likely that the mag nates believe that they stand a, bet ter chance to receive equitable treat ment from Hughes than from any other man who could be elected. He has shown since he entered public life a disposition to be perfectly fair to what is called "capital." He has also shown the same utter fearlessness of the voters as of the magnates and bosses. His advocacy, of the public utilities commission may be balanced against his veto of the two-cent fare bill as the acts of a man to whom fear Is out of the question. Thus we find the noxious New York bosses united with the corporation Interests of the country in a growing demand that Mr. Hughes shall have a place upon the Republican ticket. The demand Is seconded by a large body of disinterested citizens; but not all of them together are as yet nu merous enough to bring about their purpose. PLUCK OCT THE MURDERERS. The dynamite murder at Baker City Is another proof on Oregon soil, of crime growth throughout the Nation. But recently several murderers have gone free in this state, though each Jury knew the man accused was guilty. Horror of murder has come to be looked on lightly by many men who carry pistols, trap with dynamite, or sit in juryboxes. Statistics reveal terrible Increase of capital crime, but no cor responding increase of capital punish ment. , All these are symptoms of anarchy. LTnwritten-law murderers are anarch ists like dynamite assassins, and the one class of criminals snuffs out life as effectively as the other. But the dynamiters are a shade more mon strous. They are slayers organized and they sneak. upon their victims in the dark to get revenge and terrorize. This murder canker will not be en dured in the social body. It will be plucked out and destroyed, else men cannot live together in safety. If Juries will not send slayers to death, there will be no Juries. The social body will then resort to other means to root out assassins, either the com mittee of safety, the soldiery or the lynch mob, neither of which will harken to assassins, to their lawyers or to timid Judges. Mayor Johns, of Baker City, said last Sunday, at the memorial services in honor of the dy namite victim in that city: The American people believe in law and order and are slow to anger, but there is a limit, and this anarchistic speech and these cowardly assassinations and murders must be stopped, and If they cannot be stopped with due process of law. they will be stopped without due process of law. , That is the- last yet the sovereign cure for terrorism. It was the final and lasting medicine in many a rough frontier community half a century ago and often since in disordered societies. It will be used again in Oregon and Idaho, if assassins shall continue their diabolical work and juries fail In their duty What shall we say of men and women who breed dynamiters and ter rorists? In them lies the cause of this shame. There is too much irrespons ibility In the home, too much disre gard of character building and of re spect for law, and for what is yours and his and mine. Thi3 country faces a problem growing continuously graver. Heedless parents, neglecting their daily duty, rear children to be violators of law, slayers of their fel lowmen and fuel for hell. A FAR-REACHING FIGHT. After many months of preparation and preliminary skirmishing, the bat tle between the lumbermen and the railroads Is on. The lumbermen have asked the Federal court for an in junction, and as they have raised a fund of $250,000, they will make the contfst a fight to a finish. The rail roads seem equally determined to en force their demands for an Increase of 5 and 10 cents per hundred on lumber rates. If the contentions of both parties to the controversy are well rounded, there is about to be a demonstration of the "Irresistible force and the immovable body." From a casual glance this contest seems to be almost exclusively an affair of the railroads and the lumbermen, but a closer scrutiny of the causes leading to it and of the probable effect of a protracted struggle in the courts sug gests that the entire rate fabric of the railroads is involved in the contro versy. New conditions have arisen within the past few years, which have made it imperative that there be a general adjustment of railroad rates both east and west bound, although the latter, being largely at the mercy of water transportation, are less vulnerable than are the east-bound rates. The railroads operating in the West, have, since their construction, practiced dis crimination between localities as well as commodities. Emigrants and their goods were transported at rates made without regard to those charged for other commodities, and lumber was hauled east at a rate which bore no relation to the rate charged on wool, wheat, hops, fruit, livestock and other commodities. It is this policy of dis crimination, first enforced when the country was new and industrial condi tions in a chaotic state, that now rises to plague the railroads and disturb our great lumber industry- The en suing struggle can end only in gen eral readjustment of all rates and es tablishment of new schedules based, not on what the traffic will bear, but on the fair and equitable relation which one commodity bears to an other. The fight now on may result In the position of the railroads being main tained, so far as lumber is concerned, but, in advancing the rate on lumber they will undoubtedly learn that they have offered an excuse for reducing the tariff on other commodities. The fruitmen, hopmen, woolmen and stockgrowers of Oregon have for years been demanding lower rates, and it is from the vast sums which they have paid the railroads as well as from the lumber freights that the net surplus mentioned by the lumbermen in their suit for an Injunction has accumu lated. To establish the reasonable ness of their advanced rate, the rail roads must of necessity drag these other commodity rates into the court records, and when this is done there is strong probability that It will ap pear that the commodities which have been paying higher rates than have been charged op lumDer are respon sible for the generous proportions of the net surplus. Out of this searching inquiry into the Western system of rate-making Is almost certain to cqme a radical change In more than one commodity. There will be reductions in the high rates and increases in the low rates, with quite naturally a few commodi ties on which there will be no change. The railroads, with a full knowledge of the "card-house" nature of their rate structure, have been postponing the Inevitable for a long time, but their open defiance to the lumber men would indicate that they have fortified themselves for the general readjustment which is almost certain to follow disclosures which' will be made when the Interstate Commerce Commission and the courts insert the probe. The lumber industry has been an Important factor in the commercial growth of the Pacific Northwest, and, as the visible lumber supply in all portions of the United States is de creasing at an alarming rate, the time Is rapidly approaching when our man ufacturers will be called on to supply a much larger territory than Is now reached by our mills. The business Is of such great proportions that every fraction of a cent that can be saved In freight rates will materially im prove the conditions of a large num ber of manufacturers. For this rea son every effort should be made to prove that the existing rate is not ex cessive. Incidentally, a fight should be made for a reduction on wool, hops, wheat, barley, fruit, stock and all other commodities which have been bearing a higher rate than was exacted from the lumber manufac turers. Relief at this time would be exceptionally welcome to the hopmen, who are taxed $1.38 per hundred to the same points which now take the 40-cent lumber rate or to the apple shippers, who are paying 80 cents to $1 per hundred pounds. The results of j.he fight against the railroads are bound to be far-reaching, and can hardly fall to be beneficial to the state as. a whole. " THE BOOM; IX WHEAT. May wheat sold well above $1.10 per bushel in Chicago yesterday and the European markets closed strong at the highest price in many years. The price of the premier cereal has now reached-a figure where it Is cer tain that the net value of the crop is far in excess of last year's when one of the largest crops on record was harvested. Kansas offers a good illus tration of what these prices mean for the farmers. Last year the crop of that state was 81,000,000 bushels., This year conservative estimates place it at slightly under 70,000,000 bushels. This year the price has been averag ing about 30 cents per bushel above the prices at which the crop was mar keted last year. The Government crop report, which appeared yester day, indicates a final out-turn of the 1907 crop at about 625,000,000 bushels. The shortage compared with last year is thus about 110,000,000 bush els. Both the December and May op tions in Chicago sold yesterday an even 30 cents higher than on the corresponding date last year. This would show as an offset for the 110,-000,000-bushel shortage, a gain of $190,000,000 in the value of the 1907 crop. As this ratio of gain in price has been fairly even throughout the season, the American farmers will re ce'ive easily $100,000,000 more for this year's small crop than they re ceived for last year's big crop. This means a still greater gain than is shown by the figures, as there is a great saving in freight. The figures herewith given are for the country as a whole. In the Pacific Northwest we have been especially favored, for we are In a position to take advantage of the high prices with the largest crop ever harvested. The rapacity, or, to UBe a milder term, the enterprise of the shipowner In marking up rates has, of course, pre vented the Pacific Coast wheatgrowers from receiving all of the advance, but the total crop of the Pacific Northwest Is easily worth from $15,000,000 to $16,000,000 more than that of last year. Similar conditions prevail in all other grains, and, when the returns are all in at the close of the season, the Oregon, Washington and Idaho graingrowers will have received more money for the 1907 crop than has ever before been paid out for a single grain crop In this part of the world. UNWARRANTED PESSIMISM. General William Booth, founder of the Salvatli n Army, and President Ripley, of the Santa Fe railroad, were both quoted in Chicago interviews printed in Sunday's Oregonlan, as pre dicting hard times. General Booth says the era of high wages is at an end and that laborers must prepare for lower wages, less food and less clothing, or food and clothing much less expensive than they are accustomed to have. President Ripley, from a capitalistic standpoint, takes a similar doleful view, by saying that he "could not as president of the Santa Fe road advise anyone to invest a dollar in any of the Western states through which our railroad extends." He also says that in a short time there will be two men to every railroad job instead of two jobs to every man. It is said that Mr. Ripley's pessimism is due to a de crease to the extent of $538,000 in net earnings of his road for the month of August, while the gross earnings in creased $727,000. This would indicate that despite the decrease in net earnings the showing made by the gro-s earnings reflects an increased volume of business. The figures, of course, are not very pleas ing for the railroad men, but it should not be forgotten that the traffic that produced this excess of more than $700,000 for the month reflects great prosperity in other quarters. Some one is doing more business than last year and is undoubtedly making money with it, for in most lines of in dustry, when the proportionate volume of net and gross earnings is unsatis factory, business ceases temporarily. The great trouble with Mr. Ripley's railroad, as well as a great many oth ers, lies in an effort to show large net earnings, on a capitalization un warranted by actual value of the property. There has been quite an active movement to discourage this kind of financiering of late, and rate regulation, safety appliances, em ploye's laws and other reforms which have been instituted, may have cut down the earning power of the water in the stock without seriously affecting values. , In any event the pessimism of Messrs. Booth arid Ripley is not ap plicable to the Pacific Northwest, wherein no cloud is visible on the financial horizon. We not only have employment for months and even years ahead for more than two men where one is working now, but the output of our farms, orchards, for ests and other industries is so enorm ous and the prices so remunerative that hard times are almost impossible. .' We are producing staples for which the whole world offers a market, and we are selling them at prices unheard ox even in the palmiest days of the "good times" which we have expe rienced in the past. We will welcome the appearance in Oregon and Wash ington of many thousands of the la borers for whose future, Messrs. Rip ley and Booth express such strong misgivings. Mr. Harriman told his fellow direc tors at Salt Lake that he had been spending Union Pacific money in the purchase of tidelands at Astoria for terminal facilities. This is shocking, and confirms the worst suspicions that Astoria has expressed regarding Mr. Harriman. Undoubtedly this is only a part of his deep-laid scheme to sell the tug Wallula to the Port of Columbia. Foiled in his attempt to perpetrate that dastardly outrage, the awful Mr. Harriman has probably adopted a new plan, and, by thus be coming a Clatsop County taxpayer, is paving the way for a new demand on the suspicious residents of the City by the Sea. Further Investigation will probably disclose that these tidelands were secured without due notice being given the Astorians, and, reasoning from precedent, we may expect an Injunction to be served on the Union Pacific magnate, if he attempts to Improve the channel leading up to them from the bar. The Open River Association at The Dalles yesterday was attended by many of the old guard who have been fighting for that noble cause for the past twenty years. In that period much progress has been made, but at no time since the open river became an issue in our industrial life, have the prospects for the fulfillment of the plans of the association been brighter than now. Water transpor tation is a theme that is attracting National attention, and there is no other region in the United States where greater possibilities await the opening of a river than right here in the Pacific Northwest, where the Co lumbia and its tributaries will some day give all shippers permanent inde pendence of all other transportation lines. Some of the pioneers' in this open-river work are nearing the end of the race, but the efforts they have put forth in the good cause will be gratefully remembered long after they have past away. A successful agricultural and stock fair has been held at Arago, Coos County. The materials for such a fair are abundant in our productive coast country.- What with its lumber and dairy products, its fruit and stock and coal, its unsurpassed climate and fer tile soil. Coos can well hold its head up among the counties of the state and clamor for railroad facilities. The fair now being held demonstrates not only the natural resources and advan tages of that section, but shows a de gree of enterprise and development of which the entire state may well be proud. That the industries and busi ness of Coos pay tribute to the south ern instead of the northern market is natural in the circumstances, but It is not the less to be regretted. Cider and vinegar factories in Western Oregon are advertising for apples at $5 to $8 per ton, a price en tirely too low even when it is con sidered that only the wormy and cull apples are expected at that price. Eight dollars per ton means only 20 cents per bushel. Perhaps If fruit growers would start a campaign against cider and vinegar not made of fruit juices, and see that the pure food law is strictly enforced as to jel lies and jams, there would be more of a demand for fruit not suited for mar ket in the fresh condition. Wheat freights to Europe are ap proaching the 40-shilling mark, and. If the foreign wheat market holds its strength, may go still higher. The situation again illustrates the work ings of the immutable law of supply and demand. Last year, with not one half the tonnage in sight that Is now available for grain loading, the Sail lngship Owners" Union found it im possible to charter their vessels at 27s 6d; and non-union ships were phartered as low as 21s 3d per ton. It is related that when Mr. Harri man was hunting bear over in the Des Chutes country, the guide led the par ty for several hours on the back track while Mr. Bruin was making good headway in the opposite direction. Serves Mr. Harriman right. Maybe he knows now how an Oregon shipper feels when he hunts several days for an empty car and is then informed that the car is off in some other state and going in the opposite direction. Hood River experts say that the ap ple crop of the Northwest this year will place in circulation about $4,000, 000.' Wool, hops and salmon will be crowded down nearer the foot of the column, if this gain continues. Another reason for welcoming Okla homa within the family Is that we have almost run out of names for bat tleships. When we build one to match the Dreadnought, we can christen her for the new state. It is announced that the Oregon Savings Bank owns the capital stock of the Golden Eagle. The Golden Eagle borrowed all the capital stock of the Oregon Savings Bank. And there you are. There remains 82 days in this year for candidate makers to devise win ning combinations for the National race in 1908. The guessing season now fairly on, will continue until early Summer. ' Portland's building increase " for September was 114 per cent over that of September, 1906. Any month showing less than 100 per cent gain is a novelty this year. Let the universal interest in the Chicago-Detroit games give the lie to the accusation that the United States is only a money-making nation. A Mexican who died at El Paso this week at the age of 117 was a bachelor. If life so prolonged Is desirable, the moral is obvious. In Chicago, the Chicago National's pitcher in yesterday's game is almost as big a man as Taft or Roosevelt. WESTERN" WASHINGTON ROADS Lewis County Plans to Use State Aid Money in Improvements. CHEHALB, Wash.. Oct. 9. tSpecial.) Lewis County, is trying to secure some of the State Aid money for road purposes. Under the State Aid Law the road dis trict puts up 15 per cent, the county road and bridge fund 35 per cent, and the state SO per cent. Lewis County will have $5100 to divide among the three commissioner districts under this plan. With $1700 for each district for the first year's work the board expects to make a start. Commis sioner Tilly, of Centralis will use his money graveling the road up Lincoln Creek leading out of Centralis. There is an abundance of gravel about there for road purposes. In the Chehalis district Commissioner Young, of Claquato. will use crushed rock entirely on ' road work, and a piece of macadamized road work on the road leading east of Chehalis will be put down, starting at a junction two miles east of here. In the third district the first money will go into grading work on the main road leading from Wlnlock to Cowlitz. Commissioner Rayton has charge of this expenditure and the plan Is eventually to secure a splendid road lead ing from Wlnlock to the east, something to which the people who make Wlnlock their trading point are entitled. HOQUIAM COUNCIL DISRUPTED J. C. Shaw Suddenly Resigns Be cause of Numerous Complaints. . HOQUIAM, Wash.. Oct. 9. (Special.) The City Council of Hoqulam Is dis rupted. The resignation of Council man J. C. Shaw came like a bombshell and has caused much talk. The ab sence of Mayor Mclntyre and Coun cilmen Richardson, Sawyer and Hoag from the city now leaves the city gov ernment shorthanded and unless some of the Councllmen return before they had anticipated there will not be a quorum here next meeting night, Shaw's reason for resigning is thjvt he was tired of the Kicks and abuse heaped upon him for his stand in pub lic matters and that after doing his duty ior two years wunout any re muneration, he thought it best to re sign. Many political enemies thought he was resigning in order to give his attention to a fight for Mayor, but this has been killed in the statement from Shaw that he was not and would not be a candidate. Shaw's hard work has been instru mental in building up the Fire Depart ment to its present state of proficiency and he was the first Councilman to take up the "big stick" against the Hoqulam Water Company, which now stands to lose its franchise owing to failure to comply with ,ts provisions. DEMAND TRIAL OR RELEASE Pettibone's Attorneys Say Ordeal May Cost Prisoner His Life. BOISE, Idaho, Oct. 9. Thj attorneys being unable to reach an agreement among themselves, the "matter of post poning the trial of George A. Pettibone, accused of complicity in the murder of ex-Governor Steunenberg, was taken up In court today by Judge Wood, who pre sided at the Haywood trial. The defense continued Its tactics of trying to force the state to grant ball to the prisoner, his attorneys declaring he demanded Immediate trial or release on bond. Unless ball were granted, they declared, Pettibone would go on trial at this time, even if the strain of the or deal cost him his life. Judge I Wood said he was informed that Pettibone was unable to leave the hos pital and return to jail. Under such circumstances he could not see how he could be placed on trial Tuesday next, the day set for his hearing to begin. As to granting bail, the Judge declared that was a matter to be considered separately from the postponement, and after the original matter had been disposed of. Aljustment of the matter was finally postponed until tomorrow, when vjlarence Darrow, Pettfbone's chief counsel, will be In court. BOAT CAPSIZES IN HAPIDS Vancouver Man Loses Life at Steven son on Columbia. VANCOUVER, Wash., Oct. 9. (Spe cial) Word was received here today that Albert Bissener was drowned in the Columbia River nearly two weeks ago. Bissener was a resldent-of Vancouver, having lived here for several years. Some time ago he went to Stevenson, Wash. At the time of his death his pa rents, who live here, were notified that Albert had disappeared, and they sup posed that he had left and failed to notify them. Yesterday the body was found in the river near Stevenson. The current la quite swift at that point and it Is supposed that Bissener got too close to the rapids and the boat was capsized. He was a native of Illinois and was thirty years of age. His pa rents, one brother and a sister, and his wife and child, 'all of whom live in Vancouver, survive him. ROOMING-HOUSE NOT HOTEL Judge Decides Meals Must Be Served to Make Inn. TACOMA, Wash., Oct. 9. (Special.) A decision made In Judge Arntson'Ss court is exciting considerable comment among boarding-house men and hotel keepers, as well as lawyers. The Judge decides that a hotel where rooms are rented .and meals are not served Is not a hotel or Inn In the meaning of the law and that such hotelkeeper is not respon sible lor guests belongings. Thus, as neither the landlord of the hotel nor his servants were accused of negligence, the court held that he was not responsible for the loss of stolen goods. JURY IS UXABLE TO AGREE Will Continue Consideration Today In Sawyer Murder Trial. PENDLETON, Or., Oct. 9. (Special) The jury in the Sawyer murder trial was unableUo agree on degree to as sign to the killing and will again ballot in the morning. As near as could be gathered at the courthouse tonight it Is only a ques tion of the degree of punishment. The case went to the jury at 3:20 o'clock this afternoon. The entire day was taken up with the arguments of the attorneys and the reading of the In structions. GETS CASH ON FORGED CHECKS Young Man Signs Father's Name to Paper and Disappears. CHEHALIS. Wash., Oct. 9. (Spe cial.) A warrant has been Issued here charging Raymond Gelssler with the crime of forgery. Saturday night Gelssler is alleged to have secured $49 cash from Hartman & Nathan on a $50 check, on which he took $1 in trade. At J. E. MeCracken's Gelssler secured $52 on a check. To both checks he had signed his father's name, George Gelssler. Descriptions of the young man have been sent to all parts of the state by Sheriff Deggeller. COSTLY SPOKANE BLAZE. Two Upper Floors of Fraternal Halls . Building Barn. SPOKANE. Wash., Oct. 9. Two upper floors of the Fraternal Halls building, a six-story .block exactly in the heart of Spokane's business district, and flanked on all sides by five and six-story blocks, burned tonight. The building is located on the northeast corner of Mill street and Sprague avenue. The sixth floor is used by secret societies for lodgcrooms and the fifth floor as rooms for traveling salesmen. The second and third floors, which are drenched with water, are occu pied as offices by professional men, while the ground floor Is occupied by the Spo kane Table Supply Company, owned by E. Michel. The loss on the building, which is in sured for $27,500, Is roughly estimated at $10,000. Other losses by water will prob ably aggregate $10,000. The entire fire department was called out and 3000 people watched the blaze. which started about 1 o clock, on the fourth floor. RACING AT THE DALLES FAIR Local Horses Compete for Purses In ' Wasco Meeting. THE DALLES, Or., Oct. 9. (Special.) Races at the fair here today were largely attended and were keenly contested- En tries were limited to counties of Wasco, Gilliam, Sherman, Wheeler and Crook In Oregon and Klickitat 8n Washington. The summary. Half-mile trot, farmers- singles, driven by owners, purse $75 First, Eno, owned by J. C. Moore, The Dalles; second, Tom D.. owned by Frank Hewitt. Eight Mile; third, Santiam, owned by A. J. Watson. Golden dale; fourth.- Baby Ray. owned by Fred Fisher, Madras. Time. 1:3S- Mile run, each quarter, $25 purse First, Counselor, owned by F. Heavener. Hood River, won all four Quarters; second. Sidney B. Hurless, owned by A. D. St. Martin, Carson, Wash.: third, Little BUI. same owner. Time. 1 :3Q. Quarter mile, run, purse $100 First, Limber Jim, owned by D. A. Mod. Tygh Valley; second. Lady Barnett. owned by R. Moore, Ashwood; third. Rustic Lady, owned by A. D. St. Martin. Carson: fourth, Nina Dora, owned by Bert Bagley. The Dalles. Time. 0:26. . . Mile for trotting roadsters, best two heats In three (one heat run, others tomorrow), $100 First. Anna Belle, owned by M. Z. Donnell. The Dalles; second, Madge, owned by w. J. Harriman. The Dalles. PROMOTER IS IN TROUBLE. Reynolds' Bank at Yaldez Reported to Be In Bad Shape. SEATTLE. Wash., Oct. 9. (Special.) A cablegram from Juneau tonight says H. D. Reynolds' bank at Valdez is refusing to cash checks drawn against the institution. Efforts to get con firmation from Valdez have failed, probably because the communication with that point has been interrupted. Local bankers have no confirmation of the report, but no bank has been found that is a correspondent of -Reynolds' Valdez bank or that has been friendly to the Institution. With ex-Governor Brady and Valdez men. Reynolds attempted to finance an electric road and is now at work in Tacoma attempting to. raise $150, D00 to back the railroad and guaranteeing to move the headquarters of the Alaska Coast Company, a steamship corpora tion, to that city if successful. According to steamship men, Rey nolds has an option on the Alaska Coast Company that expires within two days and $60,000 must be paid on the pur chase price to complete the bargain. He failed in Seattle to get financial aid for his Valdez railroad. First Constructing Done in Tacoma TACOMA, Wash., Oct. 9. (Special.) The first construction work on the Chi cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul line Inside the city limits was begun today, when contractors began driving piles on the west side of the Puyallup River for the approach to the bridge. Stakes are being Bet for the pile trestle from the river to East Twenty-fifth street. The trestle acrosB the reservation will be completed as far as the east bank of the river tonight. The trestle is about 25 feet high at the river bank. Chehalis Creamery Sold. CHEHALIS, Wash., Oct. 9. (Special.) The Hazelwood Creamery Company, of Portland, and O. D. Cassldy, of Chehalis, have bought the Chehalis Creamery Com pany's business of O. Brewer and W. O. New. The new owners will take posses sion October 15. ALTON FINE MUST HOLD. Petition for Rehearing Denied by Court of Appeals. CHICAGO, Oct. 9. Judges Grosscup, Baker and Seaman in the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, in an opinion delivered today, overruled a petition of the Chicago & Alton Railway Company for a rehearing on Its appeal from the $60,000 fine imposed by Judge Landls a little more than a year ago for rebat ing. The railroad company was fined $40,000, and J. N. Fatrthorn, former vice-president, and F. A. Wann, former general freight agent, $10,000 each on a charge of having granted rebates to the packing firm of Schwarzschlld & Sulzberger Co., In violation of the El klns law. BOOMS THE FAIR IX JAPAN. Judge Burke Secures Hearty Sup port for Seattle Exposition. TOKIO, Oct. 9. Judge Thomas Burke, of Seattle, who is now In this city In the Interest of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Ex position, is receiving much attention on the part of the Japanese officials and a dinner will be given In his honor October 15. The Department of Commerce has promised to elaborate the Japanese ex hibit at the forthcoming exposition. ' The native press urges strong support of the exposition, on the ground that Japan should do everything possible to show her friendliness for American com mercial interests and especially those of Seattle. ACQUITS HIXES OF MURDER. Slayer of Count Podhorsky Freed in Goldfield. GOLDFTELD. Nev., Oct. 9. John Hlnes. charged with the murder of Count Con stantino Podhorsky, whom he shot and killed in a restaurant here last March, was acquitted tonight after the Jury had deliberated for two hours. The defense pleaded temporary Insanity. Hlnes claimed that Podhorsky, with whom he became acquainted in' Nome, met Mrs. Hlnes In Seattle and assaulted her after plying her with wine. Confesses to Killing. OAKLAND. Cal.. Oct. 9. John Albert Titus, a former mineowner, of Happy Camp, Siskiyou County, Cal., was shot and almost instantly killed by Robert C. Curtin, this evening, in the presence of his 16-year-old daughter, Velma, and two sons. Curtin was arrested five minutes later and made a full confession. He said that Titus had kept company with his wife. MUSIC -0 TWO church choirs, Methodist and Baptist, are bitter rivals In a little town in the Interior of Nebraska, and so warm has the warfare become that the church menibers have taken up special collections to help swell the music fund. The Methodists, recently announced a re cital of music calculated to niake their rivals sit up and take notice, and when the eventful evening came the church building was crowded to the door. Dea con Smith, a weathy butcher, lost five pounds weight in perspiration, trying to find seats for people who came down the aisle .over which he had charge. The deacon believed in the choir, and had given $1000 to the music fund, although he admitted he did not know much about music. Vocal numbers sung by the large choir best pleased the audience, and among these selections were several from Han del's "Messiah," particularly "Worthy Is the Lamb" and "All We Like Sheep." Late that night. Deacon Smith was go ing home, tired and cross, when, he met one of the Methodist choir members. 'Good evening, deacon." remarked the singer, cheerily, " how did you like our programme?" "So-so," was the reply. The recital could 've been a lot better." "In what way?" "I paid $1000 to the music fund, yet this evening's programme was at fault," Insisted the deacon, his eyes blazing with sudden wrath. "I didn't like you fellows sittin' up there warblln' 'bout sheep an' lambs an" slch like. There was too much reference to my business in the hull thing to suit me." Madame Schumann-Helnk, the cele brated contralto, Js a born housewife, ' and when she finishes her singing tours nothing pleases her so much as .to go to her German home and cook, dust and sweep to her heart's content One af ternoon last Summer a tourist ealled at the Schumann-Helnk home, and seeing a supposed but substantial looking maid sweeping the hall, asked if Madame were at home? The spirit of fun took possession of the great contralto, and she answered : "No." "When will she be at home? Will she return soon?" asked the visitor in a dis dainful tone. "She will not return home until late." was the demure reply, and then the caller, tossing her head, entered her auto and was driven away. The prima donna afterward told of her adventure to a friend, who asked her why she had con cealed her identity? "Ach!" said Schumann-Heink. "It hurts no one to say 'Good morning' or 'How do you do?' and even If she thought I was the servant, she should not have forgotten to be polite. That's why." Caruso, the great, has a new accom plishment. What is it? 1 He can weep. Caruso is also the great tenor who likeB monkeys. Last week Wednesday he was engaged to appear at Budapest as Rhadames In "Alda," and as he had heard that the greater portion of the boxes would be empty, owing to the enormous price demanded, he had an at tack of sulks. With reluctance he ap peared and sang to the small audience, but sang so indifferently, that those pres ent failed to applaud. Caruso went to his dressing-room in despair. What was there to do? Did he go out and take a drink? No. he just wept. Sobs shook his manly frame. Orchestral hall, Chicago, is now the Mecca for music lovers from a wide sec tion of territory. The 24 weeks' orches tral concerts by the Thomas orchestra have begun, some of the selections given this week being: Wagner's "Dreams," the Chopin "Military Polonaise." the D major suite of Bach, the second sym phony of Beethoven and the Liszt "Ma zeppa." The Chicago Madrigal Club, under the leadership of D. A. Clippinger, has en gaged as soloist for Its first concert In Music hall, December 12, Gwllym Miles, the baritone. For the second programme, the Chicago String Quartet, composed of Leopold Kramer, Ludwig Becker, Frana Esser and Carl Bruckner, has been se cured. What the Kneisel quartet will play this season will be selected from this learned list: Beethoven Quartets in F major (Opus 18 and Opus 59) and In C-sharp minor (Opus 131): two In B-flat (Opus 97), Brahms Quartet In A major; quin tet in G major; two in C minor. Schu mann Quartets in A minor and E-flat. Hawdn Quartet In G minor. Mozart Quartet In D minor. Mendelssohn Quar tet In D (Opus 44). Franch Quartet in D. Smetana Quartet. "Aus melnen Le ben." Boellmann Piano quartet In F minor. Dvorak Quintet in B-flat. Strauss Sonata for piano and 'cello. Loeffler Quintet for three violins, viola and 'cello. e In the course of his holiday. Dr. Muck paid a visit to Coslma Wagner, at Bai reuth. He found her In fairly good health in spite of her years and labors, but now compelled to court It, so to say, by life In the open air and long walks. A Chicago soprano who has a lyric voice and persists that she is a dramatic so prano had an embarrassing adventure re cently. Her old teacher had long ago warned her that she had better choose quiet songs about sleep, rest, and the lullaby line generally, but Miss .Chicago preferred to sing from Wagner. It was noticed that the more she sang the ro- -bust arias of the German school, the more she lost In weight. This went on for six months. She happened to sing at a concert at which her old teacher was present, and when she had responded to the last en core, the old man, who Is noted for his blunt speech, went to the ante-room to comfort her. He shook his gray locks deprecatingly. "How do you like me, professor? I'm a dramatic soprano now. am I not? Don't you admit you were wrong In your pre vious opinion of me, eh?" asked the so prano. The old man drew himself tin to his full height and said, very softly: "I never saw an artiste perspire as much as you do. madame." And the soprano resumed the task of wiping her face with her lace-edged handkerchief. s Walter Damrosch has acquired the rights of performance in America of Tschalkowsky's famous opera, "Eugen Onegin," written aft r a story of Push kin, the celebrated Russian poet. This opera will be given in concert form during the regular subscription series of orches tral concerts of the Symphony Society Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons in Carnegie Hail, New York City, and will be not only the first performance in America of "Eugen Onegin," but of any operatic work of Tschalkowsky Abroad it has achieved the greatest popularity. Considerlns the dearth of melodious operas, It Is strange that none of the opera managers have so far produced it.